Thanks Tim, I'll give it a whirl.
Colin -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:tjohnson@;sandisk.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 14:47 To: Johnstone, Colin; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Include files in PERL I think 'use' is what you're looking for. But just in case, perldoc -f require perldoc -f use perldoc perlmod On the last one, I would recommend reading the first section and then skipping down to the "Perl Modules" section. Then you can go back over the whole thing. Just to give you a taste of how modules work, here's a sample ...pm file. Don't forget the 1 at the end. ################################# # Sample.pm package Tim::Sample; #assumes the file is at .../site/lib/Tim/ sub InsertSpaces{ my @text = split //,$_[0]; #get characters of function parameter return join(' ',@text); #return string made of chars w/spaces between } 1 ################################# ################################# # Sample.pl use strict; use warnings; use Tim::Sample; my $text = Tim::Sample::InsertSpaces("Hello World!"); print $text; ################################# This prints "H e l l o W o r l d !". -----Original Message----- From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:Colin.Johnstone@;det.nsw.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Include files in PERL Gidday from downunder, When writing PHP if I want to an include I type include("filename.php"); Is there a similar command in PERL, does require do the job? In my mailing list application I re-use numerous functions and would like to pop these in a function library and include them on every page. Colin Johnstone Website Project Officer NSW Department of Education and Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
